Album for phonograph record-disks.



Patented Jan, 12, i909.

attaining' B. HIRSGH.

ALBUM EUR PHONOGRAPH RECORD msKsA APPLIATON FILED JAN, 2H, 1908. 909,410.

- for a desired BEN HIRSCH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ALBUM FOR PHNOGRAPH REGOBD-DISKS.

Specification of Lettera Patent.

Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

Application filed January 28, 1908. Serial No. 413,134.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, BEN lHmscrr, citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Albums for Phonograph RecorilDislis, of which the following is a specilication.

To those familiar with the use of phonographs of that type that employ disk' records, it is well known that the handling and disposition oi the records, when not in use, are a. matter of considerable concern, as the repeated handling of the records in hunting selection, tends to scratch same and renders them liable to become broken, and thi,` indiscriminate piling of the records one upon the other or in boxes, also tends to scratch them and renders somewhat diflicult the finding of any 'particular record, also result-ing in dust settling in the grooves and ali'ecting the sound of the record.

lil-lith this knowledge in view, and to overcome the didiculties above mentioned, as well as others that will at once occur to the users of phonographs of this type, my invention has for its object a simple and efficient construction of' album designed particularly for holding and preserving phonograph record disks, and l shall now describe the inven tion, setting forth the details of construction und arrangement of the parts, and then point out thc novel features in the appended claim.

For a full understanding of' the invent-ion, reference is to be had to the following description an'd accompanying drawing, in which A Figure l is a perspective view of an album embodying the improvements of my invention, the saine being shown partly opened in order to better illustrate the constri'lction. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional View through several of the album. leaves, on a larger Scale. Fig 3 is a vertical sectional view of'one leaf,

Corresponding und like parts are referred lo in the following description and indicated in a?! tlud views of the drawings by the same VQ iI'D C?, Cl. 1l (.'lt i lhe harifkng E, of my improved phono- :sfi nh disk album may be of any desired sin-, construction and design, according is judgment or l` i may dictate, and l'ietween the tno iai-ts oi" said hmifking and senured therew- :i omi in any desired way well Aover the leaves until the known in the 'oook hinders art, are any de sil-ed number of leaves 3. These leaves are so arranged as to provide conipartments for the record disks, and each one contains two compartments, so to econoinize space woll as to .show or display the title of the records through each and every page of the album. For instance, as best eeen in Figs. il and 3, each leaf comprises one or two plies of suitably heavy or stitl' card-board 4 laid one a fainst the other and relatively thin or Vflexib e, and yet sufliciently tough or strong, paper sheets 5 that are applied to opposite sides of the partition formed by the cardhoardthe ends of the paper 5 being turned inwardly between the two plies, as indicated at 6, and the whole being pasted together so as to secure the two plies together throughout their extent and the two inwardly turned edges of the paper between the ends of the plies. It Will thus be seen that each leaf embodies a middle partition Yformed by the part or parts 4, and two compartments on opposite sides of said partition, each compartment being designed tocontain a record disk sli pcd therein through one end. The paper orming the outer side wall of each compartment is formed with a sight opening 7 of a size to encompass the central portion of the disk upon which the name'of the composition reproduced thereby is imprinted or otherwise displayed.- It will thus be understood that the names of the compositions on the respective disks may be easily ascertained Without removing anyof the disks from the album, by simply turning desired disk comes to light. Then said disk may be easily with- 'drawn from the album by grasping it through the recesses S formed in the upper edge of the-outer wall of the compartment in which it is stowed. Obviously, the albums may be indexed and the pages numbered so that one may turn at once to the composition desired, and the back of the album may also be characterized in any desired way, so as to distinguish one album from the others u1 a set.

F rom the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawing, it will be seen that I have provided a very sin'iple and ellicient means for holding a plurality of record disks for phonographs where they will not be exposed to dust and hy the means of which any selection may be secured Without touching any of the disks or otherwise handling them except to turn the pages of the album, this operation, obviously, not injuringr the disks in any way. As a matter of fact, the album provides an additional means of security for the disks in that they are not so liable to be broken as when they are permitted to lie around loose, and l have found by experience that the album may be dropped and otherwise roughly handled without liability of injury to the disks, due in a measure to the protection of the backing 1 and the separation of one disk from the other by the card-board partitions and paper portions of the leaves.

lt is evident that any desired form of clasp may be secured across the upper end of the album so as to hold the leaves together, as well as revent the accidental displacement of the isks therefrom.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

As e new article of manufacture, an album for record disks of phonographs, embodying a plurality of leaves each of which oomprises two plies of pasteboard laid face to face and paper sheets having their ends inturned between the two hes, said pa er sheets being applied on tie o posite ace of the unit formed by the two p les, the plies being pasted together throughout their extent so as to secure the inwardly turned edges of the paper between the endsof the p ies.

In testimon whereof I affix my signature 'A in presence o two witnesses.

Y BEN HIRSCH. [11. 5.]

Witnesses FREDERICK S. S'rrr'r,

W. N, WoonsoN. 

